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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Marquelia in Mexico

Posted by admin on August 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.677S, -98.8651WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Marquelia in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:02:59 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 27.09 km, -98.8651° West, 16.677° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/08/16 / 2016-08-11 06:02:59 / August 11, 2016 @ 6:02 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 27.09 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10006cuv. Event ids that are associated: us10006cuv.

Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Malinaltepec (c. 26 600 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from San Marcos (c. 12 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Tierra Colorada (c. 10 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Ayutla de los Libres (c. 9 900 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Cruz Grande (c. 9 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pinotepa de Don Luis, Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, El Ocotito (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km NNW of Marquelia, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.8651° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.677° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NNW of Marquelia, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-11 06:02:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-11 07:01:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 340 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.925 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10006cuv Id of event.
Event Code 10006cuv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006cuv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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